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Issue
27 - March 2001
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Have you ever experienced this? Either no e-mail can reach you within a rather long period of time, or the same one keeps bombarding your e-mail account several times a day? One of the causes for such phenomena is that the e-mail network was jammed with e-mail of large file size, and thus traffic congestion or server malfunction results. The staff e-mail servers failed quite often some time ago and investigation found that some users had repeatedly sent out some AVI video files and MP3 music files of over 5MB each. Large files are NEVER encouraged to be sent via e-mail because:
All these will cause very slow or sluggish e-mail delivery, if the e-mail can ever be sent. Therefore, all colleagues are strongly recommended to follow the guidelines below to ensure the smooth flow of e-mail transfer:
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